Quotes by Harry Kroto - Page 1

Never, ever, compromise on science.
Harry Kroto / Chemist
Science
Compromise
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Having chosen something worth doing, never give up, and try not to let anyone down.
Harry Kroto / Chemist
Chosen
Never Give Up
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I've always felt that the Nobel Prize gives me nothing as far as science is concerned.
Harry Kroto / Chemist
Concerned
Nobel
Nobel Prize
Prize
Science Always Me
Gives
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Saying that we should stop nanoscience is tantamount to saying we should stop science.
Harry Kroto / Chemist
Tantamount
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Without evidence, anything goes. Think about it. Common sense says the sun goes round the Earth. Who agrees with me?
Harry Kroto / Chemist
Agree
Common Sense
Evidence
Sun
Round
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We live in a world economically, socially, and culturally dependent on science not only functioning well, but being wisely applied.
Harry Kroto / Chemist
Science
Dependent
Science World Live
Applied
Economically
Socially
Wisely
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I think the most important thing that young people should be taught at school is how they can decide what they're being told is true.
Harry Kroto / Chemist
Most Important Thing
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If doing something with second-rate effort satisfies you, find something else to do - where only your best effort will satisfy you personally.
Harry Kroto / Chemist
Effort
Second Rate
Best Your Will
Personally
Satisfies
Something Else
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Human beings are just animals who will just eat and take advantage of any source of energy until it runs out, and then there'll be catastrophe.
Harry Kroto / Chemist
Advantage
Catastrophe
Human Beings
Animals
Beings
Runs
Take Advantage
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You've accepted a lot of things without evidence. Find out what the evidence is for that. Find out what the evidence is for everything that you accept.
Harry Kroto / Chemist
Accepted
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Scientific discoveries matter much more when they're communicated simply and well - if you can't explain your work to the man in the pub, what's the point?
Harry Kroto / Chemist
Work Man Your
Discoveries
Explain
Pub
Scientific
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The laissez-faire attitude to science education has resulted in a disaster exemplified by the fact that more young people are opting for media studies than physics.
Harry Kroto / Chemist
Disaster
Physics
Resulted
Studies
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Imagine if we had stopped science in 1904. Yes, there would have been no nerve gas and no Bhopal, but there would also have been no penicillin. All science is a trade-off.
Harry Kroto / Chemist
Gas
Penicillin
Stopped
Nerve
Trade-Off
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It really does not matter whether one believes a mystical entity created the universe 5,000 or 10,000 million years ago - both are equally irrational, unsubstantiated claims of no fundamental validity.
Harry Kroto / Chemist
Claims
Entity
Irrational
Mystical
Validity
Believes
Equally
Fundamental
Million Years
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Scientific education is by far the best training for all walks of life because it teaches us how to assess situations critically and react accordingly. It gives us an understanding based on reverence for life-enhancing technologies as well as for life itself.
Harry Kroto / Chemist
Reverence
Walks
Life Education Best
Accordingly
Assess
Critically
React
Scientific
Teaches
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Many think of the sciences as merely a fund of knowledge. Journalists never ask scientists anything other than what the applications are of scientific breakthroughs. Interestingly, I doubt they ever ask a musician, writer, or actor the same question. I wonder why.
Harry Kroto / Chemist
Fund
Musician
Applications
Breakthroughs
Interestingly
Journalists
Merely
Sciences
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At no point do I ever remember taking religion very seriously or even feeling that the biblical stories were any different from fairy stories. Certainly, none of it made any sense. By comparison, the world in which I lived, though I might not always understand it in all aspects, always made a lot of sense.
Harry Kroto / Chemist
Bible
Comparison
Fairy
No Point
Aspects
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Science is based solely on doubt-based, disinterested examination of the natural and physical world. It is entirely independent of personal belief. There is a very important, fundamental concomitant - that is to accept absolutely nothing whatsoever, for which there is no evidence, as having any fundamental validity.
Harry Kroto / Chemist
Absolutely Nothing
Disinterested
Evidence
Examination
Validity
Entirely
Fundamental
Physical World
Solely
Whatsoever
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You can be an idiot and survive because you just go to McDonalds for your food, and you go to work and do some sort of inane job, which is nobody taking any responsibility - it's always up the line - and then you watch the Super Bowl, and that's it. But in the old days, you really had to know how your world works. You don't need that anymore.
Harry Kroto / Chemist
Mcdonalds
Old Days
Super Bowl
Work Food Always
Bowl
Survive
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I, like almost all chemists I know, was also attracted by the smells and bangs that endowed chemistry with that slight but charismatic element of danger which is now banned from the classroom. I agree with those of us who feel that the wimpish chemistry training that schools are now forced to adopt is one possible reason that chemistry is no longer attracting as many talented and adventurous youngsters as it once did. If the decline in hands-on science education is not redressed, I doubt that we shall survive the 21st century.
Harry Kroto / Chemist
Adventure
School
Smell
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